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Bill Cook was the producer of
The Glenn Reeves show, a country music television program based in Jacksonville, Fla., and broadcast on
WFGA-TV in the early to mid-1960s. It was networked over 15 stations in the southeastern
United States. The show starred singer and songwriter Glenn Reeves (1932-1999), best
known for recording the original demo of "Heartbreak Hotel," and featured a number of prominent country music artists as guests. The collection consists of 79 1-inch C videotapes of
The Glenn Reeves show from 1963 to 1966. Each episode is 30 minutes in length. Programs feature Glenn Reeves,
the Homestead Singers, the Smithwood Trio, with Jean Sheperd, Lou Olson, Whitey Schaffer,
Jackie Robinson, Mike Johnson, "Little" Glenn Smith, Harold Meeks, and Bob Phillips, in various combinations. Guests also
include the Wayfarers, Bob Curry, Hank Locklin, Jimmy C. Newman, Billy Walker, Bobby
Bare, Dave Dudley, and Shelby, N.C., native Don Gibson. There are also log sheets
listing songs, performers, and track times for some episodes. Featured guests, track
listings, and log sheets are noted when applicable.

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[Identification of item], in the Bill Cook Collection #20481, Southern Folklife Collection,
The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Acquisitions Information

Received from Bill Cook in October 2012 (Acc. 101686).

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Bill Cook was the producer of
The Glenn Reeves show, a country music television program based in Jacksonville, Fla., and broadcast on
WFGA-TV in the early to mid-1960s. It was networked over 15 stations in the southeastern
United States. The show starred singer and songwriter Glenn Reeves (1932-1999), best
known for recording the original demo of "Heartbreak Hotel," and featured a number of prominent country music artists as guests.

Track listing: Opening number, You Can't Take the Country, Lovesick Blues, Fiddle
playoff, New River Train, 'Til There Was You, Steel Guitar Rag, No One Will Ever Know,
Fiddle playoff, I've Lived a Lot in My Time, Near You, Fiddle playoff, Dear Jesus,
Abide with Me, Closing number

Track listing: Opening number, Look on the Good Side, Danny Boy, Fiddle playoff, This
Land Was Made for You and Me, When I Grow Too Old to Dream, Under the Double Eagle,
Shine on Harvest Moon, Fiddle playoff, Old Gospel Ship, I'm Busted, Fiddle playoff,
Where He Leads Me, Closing number

Track listing: Opening number, Just a Little Lovin', Born to Lose, Fiddle playoff,
Bye Bye Love, Sweet Dreams, Swanee River, Black Is the Color, Fiddle playoff, His
Eye Is on the Sparrow, You Win Again, Steel playoff, How Great Thou Art, Closing number

Track listing: Down Yonder, Old Suzannah, Hand Me down My Walking Cane, No Letter
Today, Catfish Boogie, Kisses Sweeter than Wine, Home in San Antone, Wayfaring Stranger,
Making Believe, Skip to My Lou, Oh What a Love

Track listing: Opening number, Night Train to Memphis, Room Full of Roses, Bouquet
of Roses, Fiddle playoff, Philadelphia Lawyer, All Is Well for It Is Spring, The Shiek
of Araby, We Live in Two Different Worlds, Fiddle playoff, Home, When the Saints Go
Marching In, Fiddle playoff, I Cried Again, I Believe, Closing number

Track listing: Opening number, Thunder and Lightning, Burning Bridges, Fiddle playoff,
Easy Come Easy Go, You Belong to Me, Alley Cat, Always Just a Little Lonesome, Fiddle
playoff, Raining Here This Morning, Just inside the Gate, Take the Chains from My
Heart, Fiddle playoff, When the Roll Is Called up Yonder, Closing number

Track listing: Opening number, Just Because, Everybody Loves a Lover, Fiddle playoff,
Why Don't You Haul off and Love Me, Mood Indigo, Be Honest with Me, Kentucky Babe,
Mountain Dew, His Eye Is on the Sparrow, To a Sleeping Beauty, Closing number

Track listing: Opening number, Make the Rafters Ring, Oh Lonesome Me, Fiddle playoff,
Before I'm over You, Turn Around, Sparkling Silver Bells, Sweeter as the Days Go By,
Fiddle playoff, I Can't Stop Loving You, Just One Time, Fiddle playoff, How Long Has
It Been, Closing number (Take Me Back to Tulsa)

Track listing: Opening number, Oh Mona, A Million Years or So, Fiddle playoff, My
Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, Green Leaves of Summer, Birth of the Blues, Here I
Am, Fiddle playoff, Afraid, This Little Light of Mine, Fiddle playoff, Fireball Mail,
What a Friend I Have in Jesus, Closing number (Low and Lonely)

Track listing: Opening number, Goodbye Liza Jane, I Don't Care, Fiddle playoff, Careless
Hands, Moonlight Cocktail, End of the World, I Want to Rest, Fiddle playoff, The Door
Is Still Open to My Heart, Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Fiddle playoff, Lonesome
Number One, The Last Mile of the Way, Closing number (Down in Union County)

Track listing: Opening number, Going to Build a Mountain, Just One More Time, Fiddle
playoff, Green Door, Tree in the Meadow, Four Strong Winds, Moonlight and Roses, Banjo
playoff, Say You Will, It Makes No Difference Now, Fiddle playoff, To Me He Is so
Wonderful, Closing number

Track listing: Opening number, I Want to Live and Love, Barbara Allen, Fiddle playoff,
I've Got a Tiger by the Tail, In the Mood, This Little Light of Mine, When Two Worlds
Collide, Fiddle playoff, Corey, Big John, Heaven Bound Soldier, Banjo playoff, No
Not One, Closing number

Track listing: Opening number, You Can Have Her, John Henry, Fiddle playoff, Til the
End of the World, King of the Road, All Is Well, One Way Ticket, Banjo playoff, Cowboy
Boots, Ain't It Funny, Fiddle playoff, Most Richly Blessed, Closing number (Mountain
Dew)

Track listing: Opening number, Love Built the House, Six Days on the Road, Fiddle
playoff, That's Where My Money Goes, Try to Remember, Woodchoppers Ball, Crazy, Banjo
playoff, Two Six Packs, I Feel a Cry, Mansion on the Hill, Closing number

Track listing: Opening number, Smoke Smoke Smoke, I Like Mountain Music, Banjo playoff,
Early Morning Blues, Shenandoah, Sweet Georgia Brown, Walking after Midnight, Fiddle
playoff, There Will Never Be Another You, Liza, Each Step of the Way, Banjo playoff,
The Farmer and the Lord, Closing number (Get along Cindy)

Track listing: Opening number, Thunder and Lightning, Farm in Indiana, Fiddle playoff,
This Land Is Your Land, Funny How Life Has Slipped Away, Hawaiian War Chant, Cruel
War, Banjo playoff, Remember Me I'm the One, Peaches in a Cherry Tree, Freddy Four-Toes,
What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Closing number (Down in Union County)